damselfly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
damselfly is the highest-scoring word from damselfly, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in damselfly — and it is damselfly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in damselfly produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is falsely, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling damselfly turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alleys, delays and fellas. For points, the strongest play is medfly — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damselfly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alley, deals and delay. For points, the strongest play is flamy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in damselfly produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with days, deaf and deal. For points, the strongest play is defy — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling damselfly turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, all and aye. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fey, and fly — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damselfly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
damselfly is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for damselfly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
damselfly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing damselfly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is damselfly, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from damselfly earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in damselfly produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.